Tracy Kidder Quotes

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

Tracy Kidder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 12, 1945

Topics

LearningWritingDoneWriteRight

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.

Joaquin Phoenix

FunPlayKnowWhyMoreAlways

I cannot tell you how many times I have seen the original 'Steel Magnolias' with Dolly Parton and Sally Field and Julia Roberts.

Matthew Moy

YouSteelTellOriginalSeenCannot

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

Michael Heizer

WorkBuildingsGenuineSizeImagine

I have a certain taste, and I might be like, 'I like this,' when other people are like, 'I can't wear that.' And in basketball, I might be able to do things other guys might not.

Russell Westbrook

PeopleBasketballTasteThingsWear

When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at her and your actions are another way to communicate. Don't focus on dialogue, only focus on what you're expressing.

Michel Hazanavicius

LoveI Love YouFocusDayWifeLook

I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

Michael Moore

MeGoSpinningWellLikeMidwest

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

Mohamed ElBaradei

GetOminousWouldAbleFactAbroad

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Jean Cocteau

LightJobYouthRestLiteratureYou

There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.

Jason Chaffetz

CitizenshipSpecialPathwayShould

When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.

Chris Smith

FearSilencePoliticalViolenceFail

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.

Peter Hammill

WorkParentsPeopleKnowMoreVinyl

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

Tia Mowry

LifeLiveFightIdentityStartYou

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